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Why Give?

The KSO is a leader in this region in so many irreplaceable ways, from our education programs that reach over 20,000 children each year to our Community, Masterworks, Pops and Chamber series concerts that entertain and enrich more than 200,000 people annually.

KSO musicians spend approximately 70% of their time in outreach endeavors on behalf of the Symphony. The costs involved in sending these professional musicians into area classrooms and hospitals are covered solely through grants and contributions. Unfortunately, the demand for these programs far exceeds our ability to fully provide them. With your help, we can continue to carry on our mission.

What does your gift support?

The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra organizes numerous events throughout Knoxville and surrounding areas that support education.

Young People’s Concerts
Very Young People’s Concerts
Musical Story Time
In-School Performances

KSO supports the health and well-being of the community through programs in hospitals and recovery centers and free concerts in parks and public spaces.

Music and Wellness
Concerts in the Community

KSO members playing at UT Hospital

 

“I expected to wake up and have cancer today and to deal with treatment, but I did not expect something so beautiful in my day!”

~ Music & Wellness participant at UT Medical Center Cancer Institute

 

2023-2024 season highlights

• Young People’s Concerts and Very Young People’s Concerts reached more than 10,000 students in performances in Knox County and Greene County.
• The Knoxville Symphony Youth Orchestra Association is celebrating its 50th anniversary this season and comprises 6 ensembles with over 350 students participating.
• The KSO reached over 34,000 people through free community concerts held in and around Knoxville, including Maryville, Loudon, Dandridge, Athens, Jefferson City, Morristown, and Southwest Virginia.
• The KSO is one of 30 orchestras selected to take part in the League of American Orchestra’s Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation Orchestra Commissions Program for outstanding efforts to program works by living composers. The KSO will perform the Tennessee premiere of Sarah Gibson’s “to make this mountain taller” on the February 2024 MoxCar Masterworks Series concert as part of the Commissions initiative to promote new works by 6 living female composers.

For more information on the KSO Education & Community Partnerships programs, please contact the Director of Education & Community Partnerships.